With all of our talk of DRM and musicians and directors and – oh yeah – authors losing their livelihood it's easy to forget how utterly bloody marvelous it is that all human creativity is just sitting in the air, all queued up and waiting for us to press play.
Ashton's version has a pas de deux for the fairy monarchs Oberon and Titania that's at least as marvelous, utterly dissimilar, and with tensions and releases that express the conflicts and resolutions of not only this couple but also of the drama's mortal lovers too.
It's marvelous because of Luhrmann's utterly objective, unbiased and long-term examination of how evangelical Christian's learn to pray.
He wrote:"The baseball enthusiasts claim for Getzein that he is able to so pitch a ball that it will describe the arc of a circle on a horizontal plane before reaching the catcher, and that therein lies the secret of his marvelous pitching... Scientifically, this theory is utterly absurd.
Among the many marvelous aspects of the Chocolate Factory is the way in which this most specific of theaters is utterly transformed by each new occupant.
An instant classic last spring, "Concerto," named for its tumbling Shostakovich score, looks just as marvelous now: steeped in Soviet ballet traditions and evoking styles as richly diverse as Jerome Robbins and Busby Berkeley, yet utterly contemporary and utterly itself.
It's a marvelous move: in Holt's relentless investigation, Bonner has found a way to turn this sad, sordid story into an utterly engrossing true-crime tale.
